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WYMT.com – Lawmakers want better treatment for opioid-addicted teens

  • January 17, 2018
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The age-group hit hardest by opiate addiction, struggles the most to find treatment. For teens – the first high from a powerful painkiller is even riskier than it is for an adult. That’s because those developing young minds are far more vulnerable to addiction – especially after a second prescription.

Dr. Julia Finkel is the lead researcher at Children’s National Health System in Washington D.C.

She explained “The disease itself seems to progress much more quickly.”

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